I’m trying to install World of Warcraft on a fresh Fedora 27 build. Installed all of the dependencies listed on the github READMEs and the battle.net installer downloads and runs but it throws an error of “Invalid Installation Folder” and I can tell from the free space it thinks it has it is trying to install into my / partition somewhere that I don’t have write permissions to rather than my /games partition. I haven’t been able to find anywhere that allows me to specify where it installs rather than very first screen where I tell it to install into /games/world-of-warcraft and that successfully setups the prefix, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Do you have permission to use /games as your user? If you made the folder with sudo, make sure you chown-ed it to your user.
Yep, definitely have write permissions. It should be trying to install it to $GAMEPREFIX/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Battle.net/ and I have write permissions to all of the previous folders but no Battle.net folder. It’s weird because on the screen that says invalid installation folder I can pick a new path for it to install but it will error out before I can get a new folder chosen.
Ok, I got this particular problem solved. It was a NVIDIA Optimus problem. I had to enable primusrun and now I can install Battle.net Launcher. Very strange error for what the problem was.
Now I’m getting a Failed to create graphics context error but I see some other forum posts related to the same error so I’m trudging through those now.
Yeah, you need to have drivers installed correctly with Optimus. I don’t have it myself, but some people did note that they got it working.
Make sure you have proprietary drivers.
I recently had this issue. I decided to do nothing, and a reboot fixed it for me.